Get ready to hear the term “imperial presidency” more as the mid-term elections approach. The New York Times writes Republicans’ use of the term is their unified anthem that encapsulates their criticisms about government overreach through President Barack Obama’s prolific use of executive actions. Republicans have pounced on Obama’s decision to delay parts of his health-care law, but also point to an array of other areas in which they believe he is acting outside his governing mandate, including his directive to the EPA to issue carbon rules.

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan releases his budget plan later Tuesday, and The Wall Street Journal has five things to watch for. The Journal says Ryan is expected to stick to proposals to majorly change entitlement programs like Medicare and Medicaid, and that he will take credit for a type of “dynamic scoring” that would attribute deficit reduction to economic growth. That would further reduce the deficit by bringing in more revenue.

Democrats, meanwhile, are facing political fallout on Medicare. Roll Call writes that three words strike fear into the hearts of this mid-term election cycle’s most endangered House Democrats: Medicare Advantage cuts. The Obama administration proposed cutting the program as part of implementing the Affordable Care Act, and Republicans are now plotting to use the proposed cuts to hammer Democrats in the elections this fall.

House Financial Services Committee Republicans say they’ll go ahead with a hearing about complaints from a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau employee against her supervisor, Politico reports. Top Democrats on the panel asked Chairman Jeb Hensarling, a Texas Republican, to cancel the hearing, arguing it would inappropriately focus on the details of a single case instead of broader personnel practices.

The Comcast-Time Warner merger is a “bad deal,” in the words of Washington Post opinion writer Catherine Rampell. She outlines a variety of reasons why, including that the companies have effectively acknowledged that efficiencies wouldn’t be passed on to consumers. She cites a Comcast executive telling reporters after the merger was announced: “We’re certainly not promising that customer bills are going to go down or even increase less sharply.” That should be enough to concern antitrust regulators, she writes.